Adjective: senlleiro
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | senlleiro |
| Singular f. | senlleira |
| Plural m. | senlleiros |
| Plural f. | senlleiras |
Sample Sentences
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Et semellaua que o paaço estaua senlleyro, ca home que y estouesse nõ dezía palaura. (And it seemed as if the palace was alone, because any man who was there said no word) [1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 247:]
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D. Andrés: «Moi fondo caíches.» Manoel (Arrogante): «Ou moi alto ¿qué sabes ti? Un home señeiro en terra allea, sin cartos nin poder, axexado decote, decote corrido, en loita fera con xusticias e con leises, co'esas leises, que facedes vós que o tedes todo: pan, casa, lume e amor.» (Don Andrés: «You fell very deep.» Manuel (haughtily): «Or very high, what do you know? A estranger [lit. man alone] in a strange land, out of money or power, watched all the time, all the time driven out, fighting a fierce fight with justices and laws, with that laws you make, the ones who have everything: bread, home, light, love.») [1922, A. Cotarelo Valledor, Trebón:]
Adjectives inflected like senlleiro
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese senlleiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *sing(u)lāriu(s) (“single, peculiar; singular”), from Latin singulāris. Cognate with Portuguese senheiro and Spanish señero. See: Latin Adjectives '
singulāris', Portuguese Adjectives '
senheiro', Spanish Adjectives '
señero'.
Verbs referencing "senlleiro"
Portuguese Adjectives
senheiro.
Translations